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A Psychometric and Cross‐National Examination of a Belief in a Just World Scale
Author(s) -
Loo Robert
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb01443.x
Subject(s) - psychology , scale (ratio) , just world hypothesis , social psychology , sample (material) , social desirability , clinical psychology , geography , chemistry , cartography , chromatography
The study examined the psychometric properties of Dalbert, Montada, and Schmitt's (1987) English version of their 6‐item belief in a just world scale using a sample of 253 Canadian management undergraduates. This study found strong support for the homogeneity of the scale, the independence of the scale from the influence of social desirability, and the concurrent validity of the scale as seen in significant correlations with Rubin and Peplau's (1975) 20‐item just world scale. Cross‐national comparisons show that this Canadian sample scored significantly higher than did the European and Hawaiian samples reported by Dalbert and her colleagues.